Wentworth Canning Blackett Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale PC, JP, DL (2 December 1860 – 12 December 1923), styled The Hon. Wentworth Beaumont between 1906 and 1907, and Lord Allendale from 1907, was a British

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politician.

Background and education

Beaumont was born at

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, Northumberland, the son of

Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale (11 April 1829 – 13 February 1907), was a British industrialist and Liberal politician. Background and education Allendale was the eldest son of Thomas Beaumont and his wife Henrietta Jane Emma, ...

, by his first wife Lady Margaret Anne de Burgh, daughter of

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, and his wife Harriet Canning, daughter of

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. He was baptised in London. He attended

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and graduated from

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with an MA in 1888.

Political career

Beaumont was Member of Parliament for

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from 1895 to 1907 and served under

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as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1905 to February 1907, when he succeeded his father in the barony of Allendale. He was appointed

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in April 1907 and was sworn of the

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the following month. On 5 July 1911 he was created Viscount Allendale, of Allendale and

in the County of Northumberland, and from October of that year to 1916 he was a

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under

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. Beaumont was also appointed a deputy lieutenant of

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in September 1901.

Family

Lord Allendale married Lady Alexandrina Vane-Tempest, daughter of

George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, KP (26 April 1821 – 6 November 1884), styled Viscount Seaham between 1823 and 1854 and known as The Earl Vane between 1854 and 1872, was a British aristocrat, busin ...

, on 12 November 1889. They had six children: *

Wentworth Henry Canning Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale Wentworth Henry Canning Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale, (6 August 1890 – 16 December 1956) was a British peerage, peer, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland, and army captain. Origins He was the son of Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount A ...

(6 August 1890 – 16 December 1956). *Margaret Helen Beaumont (13 November 1892 – 10 June 1958), married the 5th Earl Fortescue and had issue. *Aline Mary de Burgh Beaumont (23 April 1895 – 15 April 1967). *Diane Beaumont (1896–31 January 1897). * Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont (12 February 1901 – 18 September 1977). *Agatha Violet Beaumont (26 December 1903 – 15 January 1994). Lord Allendale died in London in December 1923, aged 63, and was buried in the grounds of

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, near

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